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68. Confusion of Prefix. 
(a) Intrusion of Ad: aecupare (illit. and in the Montagna 
pist.), for occupare; addurare, for Latin obdurare; abrobrio, 
for obbrobrio; affogare, for Latin oflocare; assedio, for Latin 
obsediu-. 
(b) Intrusion of Prse-: preposito (Montalese), for pro- 
posito. 
(c) Intrusion of DE-: dimestico, for domestico. 
69. Analogy. —Alicorno, confused with the form alifant© 
(for elefante; cf. §28), and liocorno, confused with lione, for 
unicorno; filucolo (a peasant term, “mulineilo di vento”), 
from folliculu- 1 ; bonpresso, analogy of b(u)ono (cf. French 
beaupre) ; avvoltoio, from vulturiu-, analogy of avvolto, av- 
volgere; pedagra, for podagra, by analogy of p(i)ede; om- 
baco (at Lucca), evidently a crossing of opaco and ombra; ra- 
merino, from ros-niarinus, by analogy of ramo; maniglia, 
“handle”, a crossing of monile and mano; manile, a crossing of 
monile and mano, likewise; nunziale (modern popular, for nu- 
ziale), by analogy of nunziare; torraiolo and terraiolo are 
terms used of a certain species of pigeon, and, whether con¬ 
fusion or not, the former felt the influence of torre, the latter 
that of terra; frulletto, in the sense of “folletto”, by analogy 
of frullare; pulizione, for punizione, is perhaps a half humor¬ 
ous confusion with pulire; brunata, for brinata, by influence 
of brunire; sollalzare, = “alzare un poco”, and soalzare, for 
“sollazzare”, are confusions of the forms and meanings of the 
resultants of subaltiare and solatium; iscurita after apheresis, 
and other similar words received their initial I by the analogy 
of the resultant of EX-, etc.,- cf. Prov. escur and see §16; suci- 
diarsi (modem illiterate for suicidiarsi) is perhaps a popular 
confusion with sucido, sudicio, or a regular reduction of UI to 
TJ,—see § 85. 
tO. Apheresis. —Xaturally apheresis is here most common 
in the case of masculine nouns; but there are several other 
cases, also. Spedale, for ospedale; riso, from o P v£a; lezzo, 
§69. Note'l. See Caix, Studi, No. 319. This is really metathesis of 
vowels under the influence of filare: folliculu-> fullicolo> filucolo. 
